Dr. Vickie Sugarman graduated with Honours from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry in 1991 where she won the Restorative Dentistry Award from the Academy of General Dentistry. She has worked as a clinical instructor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry and in both the dental hygiene and restorative dental hygiene programs at George Brown College.

Dr. Sugarman emigrated from the Ukraine in 1975 and is fluent in Russian. She loves to cook, exercise, is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. Dr. Sugarman has traveled to Peru, Guatemala and Uganda as a volunteer to provide dentistry to remote and under-serviced communities.